Stephanie Baker
@stephabaker.bsky.social
She/her/hers
Higher Ed policy team at New America. Opinions = own. Working on fed policy re: parenting students and child care access. Opinions on lots of things.
Parent/worker/baker/learner/gardener who believes in the power of the people.
Higher Ed policy team at New America. Opinions = own. Working on fed policy re: parenting students and child care access. Opinions on lots of things.
Parent/worker/baker/learner/gardener who believes in the power of the people.
Reposted by Stephanie Baker
Does it strike anyone as weird that we have a ratings board that counts the number of times a movie says fuck or shows a boob and decides who is allowed to see it, and yet GenAI was dropped on the entire with no restrictions, no age verification, no checks, no regulation whatsoever?
November 29, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Does it strike anyone as weird that we have a ratings board that counts the number of times a movie says fuck or shows a boob and decides who is allowed to see it, and yet GenAI was dropped on the entire with no restrictions, no age verification, no checks, no regulation whatsoever?
Saying you made an agreement that “places no restrictions” that very clearly places restrictions on trans ppl is…I guess consistent in a country where the ppl in power routinely lie, lie,+ lie some more.
Disgusting of Northwestern to enter this agreement and try to gaslight their community about it
Disgusting of Northwestern to enter this agreement and try to gaslight their community about it
"The agreement places no restrictions on our transgender community."
Except whether they can play sports, where they can use the bathroom or locker room, what kind of housing they can live in, and what healthcare they can receive.
Except whether they can play sports, where they can use the bathroom or locker room, what kind of housing they can live in, and what healthcare they can receive.
November 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Saying you made an agreement that “places no restrictions” that very clearly places restrictions on trans ppl is…I guess consistent in a country where the ppl in power routinely lie, lie,+ lie some more.
Disgusting of Northwestern to enter this agreement and try to gaslight their community about it
Disgusting of Northwestern to enter this agreement and try to gaslight their community about it
MetLife denied my short term disability claim (not explicitly for long COVID but symptoms that could be from long COVID/I will never know for sure) so a big fuck you to them, and am relieved to hear this person got the disability benefit they need and should never have been denied
A Google software engineer won his battle against MetLife to receive disability benefits for Long Covid.
This is huge
Long Covid has a lot of stigma attached to it and it can be hard to get disability.
You’re told to “try harder”.
It’s “not that bad”.
You can “still work”.
Not everyone can
This is huge
Long Covid has a lot of stigma attached to it and it can be hard to get disability.
You’re told to “try harder”.
It’s “not that bad”.
You can “still work”.
Not everyone can
MetLife Owes Disability Pay to Software Engineer With Long Covid
A Google LLC software engineer suffering from long Covid won his lawsuit seeking long-term disability benefits from Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
MetLife denied my short term disability claim (not explicitly for long COVID but symptoms that could be from long COVID/I will never know for sure) so a big fuck you to them, and am relieved to hear this person got the disability benefit they need and should never have been denied
Also a good gift option
today instead of buying barely discounted crap, get a paid subscription to an independent media outlet! a little $ goes a long way towards supporting a free press. 🗞️
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
November 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Also a good gift option
The point is, bread is amazing.
i don't get the point of stuffing in a sandwich. bread inside bread
November 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The point is, bread is amazing.
Waiting to see this announced on govt social media accounts.
“Black Friday,” Stephen miller yells, getting redder and redder, “will be replaced with White Friday.”
November 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Waiting to see this announced on govt social media accounts.
One cool thing about having POTS/dysautonomia is it makes ordering the salt bagel the health-conscious choice over other bagels that are not obscenely smothered in salt.
November 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
One cool thing about having POTS/dysautonomia is it makes ordering the salt bagel the health-conscious choice over other bagels that are not obscenely smothered in salt.
Oh, is it rigid of me to protect myself?
Who’s going to pay my bills or get up to take care of my kid if I become bedridden and unable to work again?
Who’s going to pay my bills or get up to take care of my kid if I become bedridden and unable to work again?
You've got to have some gall to call Covid conscious folks rigid when you haven't masked in public in years, cling to 2019 & refuse to evolve your daily habits to fit the science 🧬
November 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Oh, is it rigid of me to protect myself?
Who’s going to pay my bills or get up to take care of my kid if I become bedridden and unable to work again?
Who’s going to pay my bills or get up to take care of my kid if I become bedridden and unable to work again?
I do want people to pause and be joyful and enjoy family and friends and food.
But it is extremely weird to focus today on giving thanks without also acknowledging the genocidal history of this holiday.
But it is extremely weird to focus today on giving thanks without also acknowledging the genocidal history of this holiday.
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I do want people to pause and be joyful and enjoy family and friends and food.
But it is extremely weird to focus today on giving thanks without also acknowledging the genocidal history of this holiday.
But it is extremely weird to focus today on giving thanks without also acknowledging the genocidal history of this holiday.
This reading of Keepunumuk Weeachumun’s Thanksgiving story is a great way to introduce kids + adults to a real Thanksgiving story today
youtu.be/7bn8UjxRu0I
youtu.be/7bn8UjxRu0I
Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun's Thanksgiving Story Read Aloud
YouTube video by mint and bloom learning
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This reading of Keepunumuk Weeachumun’s Thanksgiving story is a great way to introduce kids + adults to a real Thanksgiving story today
youtu.be/7bn8UjxRu0I
youtu.be/7bn8UjxRu0I
Will accessing food and housing and healthcare become optional too?
November 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Will accessing food and housing and healthcare become optional too?
Reposted by Stephanie Baker
People are struggling. I want us to think about how we're going to help each other hang in there this winter. How are you going to support your friends, co-strugglers, and community as they push through this moment? How can you help people muddle through, materially and/or emotionally?
November 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
People are struggling. I want us to think about how we're going to help each other hang in there this winter. How are you going to support your friends, co-strugglers, and community as they push through this moment? How can you help people muddle through, materially and/or emotionally?
Not giving a fuck about the constitution is different than not understanding it, and the distinction matters.
MAGA that want to steamroll over the constitution in favor of a dictatorship are doing it because they want to, not because they don’t understand
MAGA that want to steamroll over the constitution in favor of a dictatorship are doing it because they want to, not because they don’t understand
I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Not giving a fuck about the constitution is different than not understanding it, and the distinction matters.
MAGA that want to steamroll over the constitution in favor of a dictatorship are doing it because they want to, not because they don’t understand
MAGA that want to steamroll over the constitution in favor of a dictatorship are doing it because they want to, not because they don’t understand
This is good advice
if I can offer any unsolicited advice to multi parent households with small children, it would be this: adults should if at all possible get flu and covid jabs on different days from the other person
November 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This is good advice
“In the dark” = abdicating their own responsibility to make plans and vote for or against them, instead of acquiescing to a wannabe dictator and his loyalists
Republicans in the dark on White House plan for Obamacare abortion restrictions
Republicans in the dark on White House plan for Obamacare abortion restrictions
For many GOP members, an expansion of abortion restrictions in Obamacare is a must-have in any tentative health care plan.
dlvr.it
November 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
“In the dark” = abdicating their own responsibility to make plans and vote for or against them, instead of acquiescing to a wannabe dictator and his loyalists
Reposted by Stephanie Baker
"Some people refer to the long Covid experience as a 'journey.' I wish they would stop. I’m pinned down by it, stuck with it. I feel like I’m getting nowhere." www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/c...
I have long Covid. Don’t call my chronic disease a ‘journey’
A “journey” is something you choose. No one chooses chronic illness.
www.statnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"Some people refer to the long Covid experience as a 'journey.' I wish they would stop. I’m pinned down by it, stuck with it. I feel like I’m getting nowhere." www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/c...
Abolish ICE
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 26, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Abolish ICE
Other countries can have nice things
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro began serving his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt designed to keep him in office after losing the 2022 presidential elections.
Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins 27-year prison sentence for coup attempt
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro started on Tuesday to serve his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt designed to keep him in office after losing the 2022 presidential elections, a move that many in the South American nation doubted would ever take place.
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Other countries can have nice things
I know some of y’all really hate seeing masks and being forced to confront that getting sick more doesn’t actually make you healthier, but I cannot understand how seeing unmasked folks cough, sneeze, and sniffle all over public transit doesn’t make you want masks… on public transit.
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I know some of y’all really hate seeing masks and being forced to confront that getting sick more doesn’t actually make you healthier, but I cannot understand how seeing unmasked folks cough, sneeze, and sniffle all over public transit doesn’t make you want masks… on public transit.
That’s really nice, but I’ve noticed the opposite is true in some circles burnt out from COVID, esp folks with kids where ppl have given up and assume everyone will be sick all the time from school/daycare
A complete “fuck it” approach without stopping to think some of us can’t afford to risk it
A complete “fuck it” approach without stopping to think some of us can’t afford to risk it
there’s an interesting thing we’ve done in our social circle as a result of Covid which is: now we let people know before social activities if anyone has any symptoms of anything potentially contagious, so everyone can make their own risk assessment
November 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
That’s really nice, but I’ve noticed the opposite is true in some circles burnt out from COVID, esp folks with kids where ppl have given up and assume everyone will be sick all the time from school/daycare
A complete “fuck it” approach without stopping to think some of us can’t afford to risk it
A complete “fuck it” approach without stopping to think some of us can’t afford to risk it
Hold up we can just call bullies and fascists out instead of becoming more fascist to get votes?
Welker: Do you think that Trump is a fascist?
Mamdani: That’s something that I’ve said in the past. I say it today.
Welker: You’ve called him a despot. Do you still believe Trump is a threat to the democracy?
Mamdani: Everything that I’ve said in the past, I continue to believe.
Mamdani: That’s something that I’ve said in the past. I say it today.
Welker: You’ve called him a despot. Do you still believe Trump is a threat to the democracy?
Mamdani: Everything that I’ve said in the past, I continue to believe.
November 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Hold up we can just call bullies and fascists out instead of becoming more fascist to get votes?
Oh.
In addition to a terrible physics teacher in high school, this iconic Tumblr post:
November 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Oh.
This change is alarming, but so is the 2024 map under Biden.
We cannot afford Dem leaders that work for anything less than abolishing ICE.
We cannot afford Dem leaders that work for anything less than abolishing ICE.
The change in ICE detentions over the past year. From the newsletter: www.howtoreadthisch.art/r/f48ddd93?m...
November 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
This change is alarming, but so is the 2024 map under Biden.
We cannot afford Dem leaders that work for anything less than abolishing ICE.
We cannot afford Dem leaders that work for anything less than abolishing ICE.
Trans people will always be welcomed, loved, and protected by me and my family.
We will keep working to do better to combat the violence and hate that harms our trans siblings.
We mourn trans people lost to violence today and commit to protecting and celebrating our trans siblings every day.
We will keep working to do better to combat the violence and hate that harms our trans siblings.
We mourn trans people lost to violence today and commit to protecting and celebrating our trans siblings every day.
November 21, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Trans people will always be welcomed, loved, and protected by me and my family.
We will keep working to do better to combat the violence and hate that harms our trans siblings.
We mourn trans people lost to violence today and commit to protecting and celebrating our trans siblings every day.
We will keep working to do better to combat the violence and hate that harms our trans siblings.
We mourn trans people lost to violence today and commit to protecting and celebrating our trans siblings every day.
Reposted by Stephanie Baker
The American people are just an ATM to the oligarchs at this point.
Withdrawals only.
Withdrawals only.
"The owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear plant has been awarded a $1 billion federal loan guarantee that will enable it to shift onto taxpayers some of the risk of its plan to restart the Pennsylvania facility and sell the electricity to Microsoft for its data centers."
Trump officials give $1 billion loan to restart Three Mile Island
The plan to reopen Three Mile Island to supply Microsoft with power wins a federal loan guarantee, shifting some of the risk onto taxpayers.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The American people are just an ATM to the oligarchs at this point.
Withdrawals only.
Withdrawals only.